{"id":145,"date":"2005-01-04T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-05T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2005-01-04T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-05T04:03:00","slug":"do-not-go-near-downed-power-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Go Near Downed Power Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"

They have said this repeatedly on tv tonight with the ICE STORM OF THE CENTURY bearing down on us here. Shouted with drama & irony.<\/p>\n

I say, if you have not figured this out by now, then you deserve to pick up a downed power line, put it in your mouth & see what happens.
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Seriously. Modern medicine has allowed far too many stupid people to not only continue living, they are combing their mullets & repopulating the world! And we have to REMIND people not to pick up live sparking cables? The decline of common sense continues to amaze & disappoint me. <\/p>\n

Also, am I the only one who thinks Ted Textor<\/a href> is an absolutely HILARIOUS weatherman’s name? I think it reminds me too much of Ted Baxter, and I adored Ted Knight SOOOO much on the Mary Tyler Moore show. Ted was going to be my second husband, you know. I even named my teddy bear “Ted Thursday” after him. (why Thursday? I don’t know! I was three! Hell, I named my first doll “Nohni”, which means, “This is MINE and I will Have Difficulty Sharing Things For the Rest of My Life” in Japanese.) Oh, who was my first<\/strong> husband going to be, you ask? Why that would be Kansas City native Walter Cronkite. Apparently my parents got a BIG ol’ kick out of asking their three-year-old child who she was going to marry when she grew up, and I would always walk over to the tv & point at Walter Cronkite, chirping, “Him!” (They only asked this question during the news, for obvious reasons.) So I seemed to carry a very bright torch for white-haired gents at a very early age. I like to think I had an early attraction to intelligence & humor. Walter Cronkite doesn’t need to be told twice to stay away from downed power lines, and neither do I, thank you very much.
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They have said this repeatedly on tv tonight with the ICE STORM OF THE CENTURY bearing down on us here. Shouted with drama & irony. I say, if you have not figured this out by now, then you deserve to pick up a downed power line, put it in your mouth & see what happens. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}